Red brick with light sand mortar blurs past. A little boy wearing blue is walking next to me. I am moving along quickly, but I am not walking. I describe this scene to my mother, who explains this would have been a day during the first few months of my life.We lived in an apartment […]
Now that the warm weather is here to stay, I plan on using my bike to get around more often. A favorite summertime activity for Ava and me is to ride our bikes to watch the sunset. Tonight after we finished eating and cleaning up the kitchen, we grabbed our bikes and headed to the […]
I came to the conclusion several years ago that I cannot make everyone happy. I was naturally an introvert and would avoid controversy for the sake of being contrary or hurting someone’s feelings. But that did not mean that I did not have an opinion on a hot topic, I usually just held my tongue. […]
During an ice skating trip in our Nation’s capitol, just before my nineteenth birthday he caught my attention. Sean and I had been friends for about five months, but we lived over an hour away from each other. The times we did hang out were always in a large groups and at parties, so I […]
Warning: It is the day after Mother’s Day and I’m gonna brag on my kids, they spoiled me yesterday. It started with Ava making me breakfast and giving beautiful homemade gifts. I had the morning with Kyleigh chatting on the sofa while I sipped my coffee, a nice long phone call with my mom. Then […]
Several options are available when traveling from one end of the island to the other. If we’re not drinking, then the obvious choice is taking our own car. Once the night gets started we have our favorite rounds that we make and they are on both ends of the island. We always make a responsible […]
Walking up the steps of the Tybee pier just before the sun bursts through the clouds throwing thousands of diamonds across the sea is how my work day started this morning. I had not had my coffee yet, but the sunrise and waking day waits for no one. I am working on an image as […]
Today I read about a story that has gone viral. It was about a dad’s response to a letter he received reprimanding him from his kids’ principal after he took them out of school for three days. This reminds me of the time my dad was taking me to Europe for seventeen days. I met […]
Are you spending time doing what makes you happy? Or are you just spending time? I invite you to re-evaluate your life and the days in it. There are always seasons in our lives where we have to do things that are unpleasant, or circumstances that obligate our time and energy when we would rather be […]
Over the past 15 years, I have been administered several Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator tests. The first one revealed that I am an extreme introvert. At this point in my life, I would not even introduce myself in a room full of people. Maybe one on one, but never in a whole room of people. […]